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by basseq 8y ago
This is an interesting article for HN. It's spun as a negative, using terms like "threatening", "monopoly", "controversial", and "retribution". You could write it the other way, where an immigran
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by basseq 8y ago
So it's a tautology. Prestigious schools attract top talent because top talent goes to prestigious schools. The best way to be successful is to be top talent—regardless of where you go to school for the majority—but top talent are like
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by basseq 8y ago
I'm skeptical at the choice of Crystal City. (Sorry, that's where it is, call it what you want.) I think being "urban" mattered a lot to them, and Crystal City has the most opportunity for a significant tenant to move in
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by basseq 8y ago
Or is it the ability to deal with stress, regardless of the source? If I'm reading the study[1] correctly, offspring of stressed fathers were less stressed than offspring of non-stressed fathers: > Alternatively, a reduced phys
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by basseq 8y ago
Apple, at least, claims they do[1]: "As a matter of practice, before servers are put into production at Apple they are inspected for security vulnerabilities and we update all firmware and software with the latest protections." [1
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by basseq 8y ago
"Culture fit" is a double-edged sword, and implies you have a strong handle on what your culture is in the first place: both the good and the bad. A candidate who is conflict-adverse, for instance, would not be a "culture fit
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by basseq 8y ago
I tell my team the same thing. There's nothing unforgivable about missing a deadline: what's unforgivable is not telling people it's going to happen.
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by basseq 8y ago
Welcome to GDPR. Processing of any personal information ("any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person") requires "clear, free, specific and unambiguous" consent. GDPR requires that you info
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by basseq 8y ago
Ideally, you want both. That's a perfectly reasonable question for the candidate to ask. Why would you want to do that? You'd want a damn good reason to go "off the reservation" and build something like that. Plus, the
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by basseq 8y ago
Ah ha! I think that's it. The denominator could be "people in the YouTube Partner Program", which means 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. So this may be saying that only 3.5% of YouTube Partne
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by basseq 8y ago
Depends how you draw the graph. I'm imagining a distribution with income on the x-axis, so people like PewDiePie would be far right and part of the long tail.
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by basseq 8y ago
Right, I'm not even talking about other revenue streams. In other words, what % of content creators on YouTube earn more than $10k/yr, even including other revenue sources? I bet it's less than 3.5%.
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by basseq 8y ago
Right, I'm not even talking about other revenue streams. In other words, what % of content creators on YouTube earn more than $10k/yr, even including other revenue sources? I bet it's less than 3.5%.
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by basseq 8y ago
Exactly. There are 1.5 billion monthly active users. So maybe it's just content creators , which is estimated at 50 million[1]. That may be a lifetime number, so let's assume 10%, or 5M in FY17. If this is what it means to be a
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by basseq 8y ago
> 96.5 percent of YouTubers don’t make enough annual ad revenue to reach the U.S. federal poverty line... $12,140. I'm surprised it's that low, honestly. May be a question of definition of a "youtuber", which I didn
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by basseq 8y ago
> Mint (still) asks users for their banking passwords. In defense of Mint, most banks are severely behind the curve when it comes to authentication, and there would be no way to provide that service otherwise. Where the financial insti
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by basseq 8y ago
Killer feature of all screenshot webapps: paste. Meaning, I should be able to paste an image on my clipboard to your app and have it generate. Snag.gy ( https://snag.gy/ ) does this well.
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by basseq 8y ago
The extreme voices are the loudest, and online arguments don't nurture nuanced perspectives. Thus, if it's a binary choice, your options are: 1. Crypo=Blockchain=Bitcoin, we're all going to be doing 100% of our transactions i
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by basseq 8y ago
Let's say Amazon leadership is appalled at these conditions. Management by metric is working insofar as it goes, but you really didn't know how bad it was several layers down. How would an organization identify something systemic
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by basseq 8y ago
My company's vesting schedule used to have a 3-year cliff: 0% first year, 0% 2nd year, 75% third year, 25% fourth year. It's a much more reasonable quarterly vest with a 1-year cliff now.
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by basseq 9y ago
It has nothing to do with shoplifting. The seller and manufacturer don't care whether you resell the items, but the Government does. In the U.S., the FDA requires that all packaged food products sold at retail contain a Nutrition Facts
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by basseq 9y ago
It's not. But many "legacy" systems—using the term broadly to mean people and process—are inconsistent and not any more correct as a whole. A standardized system is easier to monitor and easier to correct, so I see this as an
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by basseq 9y ago
It's "a truth", which is probably as good as you can get, given that "the truth" is always a subjective thing. The benefit to algorithm isn't that it's infallible (it may well be), but rather than it'
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by basseq 9y ago
49 C.F.R. § 835.2 > Pursuant to section 701(e) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (FA Act), and section 304(c) of the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974 ( 49 U.S.C. 1154(b)) (Safety Act), no part of a Board accident report may be admi
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by basseq 9y ago
Doesn't this beget an economic feedback cycle? I.e., if it's more cost productive to send to a landfill, then more waste will be sent to a landfill, and so the costs to do so will go up as "demand" (waste) outstrips &quo
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by basseq 9y ago
I loved this article on making paper for U.S. currency, which is produced by one company out of cotton and linen. Up until very recently, the company used denim as a source of raw material. > "But recently, Americans decided they li
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by basseq 9y ago
Where "everything" may be limited. For example, I just went and looked: I can recycle "recyclable glass, aluminum, cans, plastics and paper".
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by basseq 9y ago
Or Craigslist 'Free Stuff'.
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by basseq 9y ago
Exactly that! I could swear that part wasn't in there when I started responding, but I guess I honed in on the first sentence and my reading comprehension suffered. Mea culpa.
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by basseq 9y ago
I agree. I have a few used sportcoats and overcoats from high-end manufacturers that I bought for pennies on the dollar. They are good-to-great quality, and thanks to "timeless" men's fashion, are still in style. You have to

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